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Visual Arts
9:03 pm
Fri September 14, 2012

'SmellScape' Encourages Nose-First Exploration

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Credit Laura Spencer / KCUR
Just follow your nose, or the nose glyph, to collect one of 20 possible smell cards in the game/project called SmellScape.
Credit Laura Spencer / KCUR
A mini smell lab, with smelling strips and beakers, on a long table at Grand Arts. It allows visitors to sample scents from different neighborhoods in KCK and KCMO.
Credit Laura Spencer / KCUR
On a Saturday smell walk at the Kansas City Museum, Addie Harte, and her daughter, Lina, 7, check out the SmellScape map and pick up smell cards.
Credit Laura Spencer / KCUR
Sissel Tolaas and Grand Arts artistic director Stacy Switzer at a laundromat stop during the smell walk.
Credit Laura Spencer / KCUR
Artist and writer Jose Faus led the smell walk with Sissel Tolaas. "This little one block area (on Independence Avenue) tells you more about what this city is becoming," he said.
Credit Laura Spencer / KCUR
Kaw Point is one of the six main posts in the SmellScape game.
Credit Laura Spencer / KCUR
Will Morris, 8, scratches and sniffs a smell card at Kaw Point.
Credit Frank Morris / KCUR
Views of the river, the downtown skyline, and sculptural debris walking along the trail at Kaw Point.
Credit Laura Spencer / KCUR
You'll need a nickel to get this smell card at one of the four Kaw Point stops.
Credit Laura Spencer / KCUR
A stack of smell cards outside St. Mary's Episcopal Church, one of the stops in downtown Kansas City, Mo.
Credit Laura Spencer / KCUR
You may have to wait in line to pick up a smell card from a Traffic Violations clerk at the Municipal Court in downtown Kansas City, Mo.
Credit Laura Spencer / KCUR
Some smell cards are located outside; some are indoors, like this one at the Steamboat Arabia Museum in the City Market.
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Berlin-based artist Sissel Tolaas travels the world collecting scents.

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Visual Arts
2:59 pm
Thu August 25, 2011

Temporary Artwork Generates Discussion about Economic Policy

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Artist John Salvest looks at the diagram for "IOU/USA" in Memorial Hill/Penn Valley Park.
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On the grassy lawn near the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City, trucks are hauling cargo shipping containers to be unloaded and stacked into a towering, temporary sculpture. One hundred and five containers, piled almost seven stories high, will spell out IOU on one side and USA on the other. It's a nod to this country's increasing federal budget and foreign trade deficits.

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